Kathy Tracey shared a photo of a coffee cup quilt that hangs in her husbands office building. She visited a quilt guild in Michigan and was able to speak with some of those that helped make it years before! It is a great story and you can see a picture and read about it in her blog, A Sentimental Quilter.
It reminded me of my own coffee cup quilt. I appliqued my blocks VERY early on in my quilting journey. I found the pattern in this book published in 1983:
I really had no idea what I was doing. I completed only 9 blocks and set them in a box. They were not well done enough to finish but I put too much work in to just throw them away! Fast forward about ten years and we were living in France. I pulled the blocks out, despairing that none were centered or ever would be. So I decided to make them intentionally wonky and set them into a top.
I was pretty new to machine quilting then and figured I had nothing to lose practicing on this top.
It is fun to look at this now! I have learned a lot since making this but I do love it now. In the border I quilted the words to a little song my kids made up for me. It says:
Coffee, coffee
Oh I love my coffee
Can’t go to sleep
Because I drank all the coffee!
They used to sing this to me to the tune of a Veggie Tales song. Such great memories! I think it is time to hang this one up again.
Do you have any coffee quilts?
KatyQuilts 
Thank you for this post. I’ve always loved this quilt since I saw it at an exhibition in Tennessee in the early 90s. The one I saw was a little different but so much the same. It was blue and white. I’m really here to thank you for posting the book and the pattern. I think this will be my one GREAT quilt, you know the $5,000, hand quilted kind that a modern quilter like me is just too lazy to make. Here’s a link to the quilt I saw: http://tinyurl.com/hewn88f
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No coffee quilt here, but I’m kind of wanting one now!! Great memories on that one 😉
Hi Katy. Your e-mail wouldn’t work so I am popping in here. Thank you for stopping by my blog. Your coffee quilt is very sweet. I did make one years ago and still have it.
No coffee quilt in my house either, but I do love your story and am glad you now like your quilt. It’s all part of your quilt history – and such great family memories
Cute story.
No coffee quilts here but now I’m inspired to make one. I love your tipzy version.
Your coffee quilt is cute. What a nice story this quilt has. I like how you quilted it to the song.
No coffee quilts here, but I do own that book. Love your tilted blocks, would love to make one for my momma(coffee-aholic).
Love your quilt, it is really cute! I don’t have a coffee quilt but would love to make one for my sister…Love your blog, too….
What a cute quilt. You are so talented. Love your blog also.
Terrific. No, I don’t have a coffee quilt. But that sure it cute. Great idea to set them wonky, too. There are solutions to most of our problems (quilting and not) if we just wait for the right moment.
Cute. I am amazed how nice your quilting is on the song. Great job.